How2Heroes - DIY Videos for Cooking
How2Heroes is a DIY Cooking video site. The site is rather plain looking and the video offerings are paltry compared to some of the bigger players in this area like 5Mins, the Hungry Savage and YouTube. Video recipes are arranged by light categories, such as breakfast, entrees and family recipes.
The actual navigation of the site is slick and well thought out. I especially liked how all the recipes were laid out on one page under the headings, as other sites usually bury the recipes through pagination. Unfortunately, the video player used on How2Heroes is clunky and ugly. There doesn't appear to be any way to fast forward through the video, asides from letting the video load and then skimming to the relevant sections. Although it lets you embed the videos on your own site, I don't quite think you would want to - at least not with their player.
The video recipes are all quite good quality and seem to be professionally created. The site looks new, so it's understandable that most of their video recipes concentrate on the food basics. Hopefully in time they will expand to more exotic and interesting palettes.
The Overall Ratings for How 2 Heroes:
Show Diversity: (3/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (2/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (4/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (2/5)
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.
Total Score: 13/20
How 2 Heroes is an honest attempt to bring high-quality, professionally shot recipe videos to the masses. There are already several large competitors operating in this field, and How 2 Heroes main shortcomings lies in the lack of variety it offers, and it's clunky player. If you're looking for very basic recipes, try How 2 Heroes - but just don't expect anything past the bread & butter recipe staples (no pun intended).
Bon Appetit!
http://www.how2heroes.com
The actual navigation of the site is slick and well thought out. I especially liked how all the recipes were laid out on one page under the headings, as other sites usually bury the recipes through pagination. Unfortunately, the video player used on How2Heroes is clunky and ugly. There doesn't appear to be any way to fast forward through the video, asides from letting the video load and then skimming to the relevant sections. Although it lets you embed the videos on your own site, I don't quite think you would want to - at least not with their player.
The video recipes are all quite good quality and seem to be professionally created. The site looks new, so it's understandable that most of their video recipes concentrate on the food basics. Hopefully in time they will expand to more exotic and interesting palettes.
The Overall Ratings for How 2 Heroes:
Show Diversity: (3/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (2/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (4/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (2/5)
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.
Total Score: 13/20
How 2 Heroes is an honest attempt to bring high-quality, professionally shot recipe videos to the masses. There are already several large competitors operating in this field, and How 2 Heroes main shortcomings lies in the lack of variety it offers, and it's clunky player. If you're looking for very basic recipes, try How 2 Heroes - but just don't expect anything past the bread & butter recipe staples (no pun intended).
Bon Appetit!
Garlicoon
The site isn't entirely original, and seems slapped together over the course of a few hours. The quality of the videos aren't very good, although now and then there are a few professionaly done videos that appear to advertising rival cooking video sites. Certain videos seemed out of place or were entirely unrelated to food (I'm not sure what a video on skateboarding is doing on a food site).
The Overall Ratings for Garlicoon:
Show Diversity: (2/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (3/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (1/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (1/5)
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.
Total Score: 10/20
Garlicoon could be much more, the name is not enticing but asides from that the content looks rushed and put together using some sort of automation with many low quality videos being mixed in with the better ones. I'm not entirely sure this should be labelled a video site considering that it seems to be pulling videos directly from YouTube and with no visible filter for quality. I wouldn't recommend Garlicoon.
http://www.garlicoon.com
